emigrate

verb/ˈɛməɡreɪt/

Frequency rank: #14,473 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)

Meaning

To leave one's own country in order to settle permanently in another.

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Example sentence

Many people chose to emigrate from Ireland during the famine in the 1840s.

Synonyms & related words

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